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A kind of hoisting winch.

Pertaining to both tongue and epiglottis; as, glossoepiglottic folds.

A writer of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast. Hayward.

Of or pertaining to glossography.

The writing of glossaries, glosses, or comments for illustrating an author.

gue; -- applied to the anterior segment of the hyoidean arch in many fishes. -- n. The glossohyal bone or cartilage; lingual bone; entoglossal bone.

The gift of tongues. Farrar.

Of or pertaining to glossology.

One who defines and explains terms; one who is versed in glossology.

The definition and explanation of terms; a glossary.

r of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the pharynx and tongue. -- n. One of the glossopharyngeal nerves.

th and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth surface; highly polished; lustrous; as, glossy silk; a glossy surface.

Gorse. [Obs.] Shak.

An outer garment, made of waterproof gossamer. Gossamer spider (Zoöl.), any small or young spider which spins webs by which to sail in the air. See Ballooning spider.

Like gossamer; flimsy. The greatest master of gossamery affectation. De Quincey.

Decomposed rock, usually reddish or ferruginous (owing to oxidized pyrites), forming the upper part of a metallic vein.

Containing or producing gossan.

A small British marine fish (Motella tricirrata); -- called also whistler and three-bearded rockling. [Prov. Eng.]

A gossip. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother. Should a great lady that was invited to be a gossip, in her place send her kitchen maid, 't would be ill taken. Selden.